GAME INFORMATION
Date: Tues., May 14
Time: 6 p.m.
Site: Statesboro, Ga./J.I. Clements Stadium
TV/Video Stream: gseagles.com/watch-listen
Play-by-Play: Ryan Chambers; Analyst: Kris Draper
Baseball Radio Network: gseagles.com/watch-listen
103.7 FM - WBMX - Metter/Statesboro
900 AM - WJLG - Savannah
1370 AM - WLOP - Jesup
Play-by-Play: Ryan Chambers; Analyst: Kris Draper
Live Stats: gseagles.com
Twitter Updates: @GSAthletics/@GSScores
Series: North Florida leads 8-7
Statesboro: Ga. Southern leads 5-3
Away: North Florida leads 5-2
Neutral Site: No Meetings
Unknown: No Meetings
First Meeting: 2/4/2006 - L, 7-2
Last Meeting: 3/4/2012 - W, 9-5
Last Series Win: 2008 - 3-1, 17-4
Last Series Loss: 2012 - 4-7, 5-7
Streak: North Florida, 1 win
STORY LINES
Georgia Southern (25-26, 13-14 SoCon) returns home for their final home game against North Florida (35-16, 16-8 A-Sun) Tuesday.
The contest will be the final one at J.I. Clements Stadium for the Eagles’ seven seniors and serves as the team’s final non-conference game. GSU is 12-12 in non-conference games this season.
The game will also be Bulloch County Recreation Department day.
The game can be heard on the Georgia Southern Radio Network and streamed online at gseagles.com/watch-listen.
GSU will send Matt McCall (3-1, 5.69 ERA) to the mound to face UNF’s Tyler Moore (1-0, 1.23 ERA). McCall threw a third of an inning on Sunday at Clemson and allowed one run on two walks.
The Eagles need another five wins to give Rodney Hennon his 16th consecutive 30+ win season. Hennon has led GSU to a winning season in his 13 previous seasons at the helm.
Head Coach Rodney Hennon is also two wins away from his 500th victory at Georgia Southern. Coach Hennon picked up his 500th career victory in 2011.
Scooter Williams hit his first two home runs of the season over the weekend. Williams, who entered the Furman series with just three career homers, hit home runs on Saturday and Sunday. Brent Pugh is the only other Eagle to hit a home run on back-to-back days this season. The four hits over the weekend snapped an 11 game 4-for-32 stretch for Williams.
Georgia Southern finished the month of April with a 5-12 record. The Eagles hit .244 in the month and finished with a 5.34 ERA. Robbie Dodds led the team with a .342 batting average during the 17-game month, while Justin Hess was 1-1 with a 1.98 ERA over six appearances and four starts.
The trio of T.D. Davis, Chase Griffin and Ben Morgan have combined for 20 of the team’s 29 home runs.
T.D. Davis has 11 home runs on the season while the rest of the team has hit just 18. A year ago Davis hit just five home runs.
Chase Griffin has started all 51 games behind the plate for the Eagles this season. In his two-year career, Griffin has started 99 times as the team’s catcher. He and first baseman T.D. Davis are the only two Eagles to start every game this season at the same position.
QUICK HITS
Georgia Southern fell below .500 for the third time this season after being swept at Clemson.
The Eagles’ offense surpassed the 1995 team, who held the record for strikeouts in a season with 437, on Saturday with its 438th strikeout in the first inning.
Chase Griffin is averaging nearly an RBI a game (.90) and leads the team in that category with 46.
Justin Hess is averaging 11.2 strikeouts per nine innings and has totaled a team-best 98 punch outs in 78.2 innings this season.
Georgia Southern is 17-0 this season when recording as many or more hits than their opponent. The Eagles are 13-0 when out-hitting the opponent.
Georgia Southern is 20-4 when scoring six or more runs and is 18-7 when allowing five runs or less.
The Eagles are 22-3 when leading after the fourth inning and 20-3 when leading after six frames.
Chase Griffin and T.D. Davis are the only Eagles with 10 or more multi-hit games and 10 or more multi-RBI games.
Georgia Southern ranks 41st in total attendance (39,109) and ranks 47th in average attendance (1,348) in the nation.
In his 16th season at the helm of a Southern Conference program, head coach Rodney Hennon is the second winningest active coach in the SoCon.
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